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Science Versus Fiction: SETI's Seth Shostak On Battleship
wired.com 1 week, 5 days agoA researcher with the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, who also served as a consultant on the $200 million movie based on a board game, talks about how Battleship' s alien encounter squares with reality.
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A New Translation Of The One Russian Science Fiction Novel You Absolutely Must Read
io9.com 2 weeks, 6 days agoIf you're going to read just one Soviet-era Russian science fiction novel, it should be Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's dark, ambiguous Roadside Picnic . Originally written in the early 1970s, it's back in print in English after 30 years, with a brand-new translation by Olena Bormashenko and a riveting afterword by Boris Strugatsky about how the book was butchered by Soviet censors. It's a seriously intense tale of a man who risks his life and freedom to smuggle artifacts out of mysterious "Zones" where alien










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